President Carter stressed that there is no room in Jesus' message for sexism:

"There's no evidence at all that Jesus Christ did anything except to exalt women. Never has a single word or action been alleged to him that would deprive women from their equal or superior rights."

Carter explained that he left the Southern Baptist Convention when they voted that women must be subservient to their husbands in 2012, a ruling that went against his commitment to gender equality. He maintains a strong Baptist faith and attends a Baptist church where a woman served as pastor and his wife is a deacon.

"Everybody is equal in the eyes of God," he said.

Watch the whole segment here.

(A previous version of this article referred to President Carter's affiliation as the Southern Baptist Church; it has been corrected to be the Southern Baptist Convention.)

<a href="http://www.afghaninstituteoflearning.org/our-founder.html" target="_blank">Dr. Sakena Yacoobi</a> is the founder of the Afghan Institute of Learning, the Professor Sakena Yacoobi Private Hospital in Herat, and the Professor Sakena Yacoobi Private High Schools in Kabul and Herat, Afghanistan. "I really believe that Islam says that education is a must for both men and women," Yacoobi once said. "The Quran tells us to be good, and educations gives you critical thinking skills that are essential for ethical decision-making."